Released: Oct 21, 2021

Updates in V8.19.2001

Features

• Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 Preview support has been discontinued.

Entity Framework support

• Added support for Entity Framework Core 5.0.11.
• Added support for Entity Framework Core 3.1.20.
• The implementation of config.CodeFirstOptions.TruncateLongDefaultNames in Entity Framework 6 Microsoft .NET Standard compliant assemblies has been improved: the generated names are constant, independent on a current domain and workstation.

Fixes

• Fixed the bug with throwing Devart.Common...

Released: Sep 28, 2021

Updates in V8.19.1985

Features

Entity Developer

• Added new Validation Framework property to the Data Transfer Object template for generating DataAnnotation attributes.
• Added new "Save connection to" option to Microsoft Entity Framework Core Model Settings which adds the ability to store the connection string in "Model file", "Entity Developer storage" and "Environment variable".
• Added new "Enum Output" option to the Entity Framework Core template to specify the output for generated enums.
• Added new property "Generate...

Released: Jul 8, 2021

Updates in V8.19.1930

Features

• Added support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.11 Preview 2.0.

Released: Jun 3, 2021

Updates in V8.19.1905

Features

• Added a new connection string parameter BinaryUuidOrder that allows using binary MySQL UUID order of bytes when converting binary(16) to System.Guid.

Released: Apr 1, 2021

Updates in V8.19.1860

Features

• Added support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.10 Preview.
• Added the ability to use SslStream to create SSL connections for Microsoft .NET Standard (.NET Core) projects.
• Added an additional parameter substitution mode in queries in the SSIS Data Flow Source component: substitution as is, without escaping.

Fixes

• Fixed the bug with a DateTime variable in the SSIS Source component.

Released: Feb 18, 2021

Updates in V8.19.1836

Features

• Added a new command line option /disablegac that disables adding assemblies to GAC.

Entity Developer

• Changed the behavior of Entity Developer embedded into Microsoft Visual Studio: lower versions in the Entity Framework Core version property of Model Settings are not hidden any more.
• Changed the behavior in Entity Framework Core Model: QueryType=True is now set for all classes without PK.
• Improved C# code generation: the using directives are generated instead of full namespaces in the...

Released: Jan 14, 2021

Updates in V8.19.1812

Features

Entity Developer

• Added new attribute DisplayName for model objects' extended properties which are available via template properties.
• Added new options --ContextNamespace and --DefaultNamespace to the Create-Model command of Console Entity Developer.
• Added new extended model property Base Context Type for specifying a parent class for the generated context in Entity Framework Core Model.
• Added new extended properties Base Type for complex types and Base Complex Type for model in Entity...

Released: Dec 17, 2020

Updates in V8.19.1792

Features

Entity Framework support

• Added support for Entity Framework Core 5.0.1.

Fixes

Entity Framework support

• Fixed the bug with creating savepoints in Entity Framework Core 5.

Released: Dec 3, 2020

Updates in V8.19.1782

Features

• Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.9 Preview is now supported.

Entity Developer

• These new features are now supported in Entity Framework 5.0:
  • TPT inheritance.
  • Many-to-many associations.
  • New types of properties: IPAddress and PhysicalAddress.
• The Model Refactoring functionality is now supported for classes in Entity Framework Core Model.
• The behavior has changed in a standalone Entity Developer: by default the Target Framework model property in Entity Framework Core Model is set to...

Released: Oct 29, 2020

Updates in V8.18.1759

Features

Entity Framework support

• Added support for Entity Framework Core 3.1.9.

Fixes

• The bug with Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 integration, when both v16.7 RTM and v16.8 Preview are installed on the same computer has been fixed.
• The bug with missing Name and Owner properties of the MySqlConnection class in Microsoft .NET Standard compliant assemblies has been fixed.

Entity Developer

• The bug with reading templates from *.edps by console Entity Developer has been fixed.